It's in your hands : reflecting on the passing of Edward Said
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Edward Said, to the last, was an intellectual who believed that all human beings are entitled to expect decent standards of freedom and justice from world powers. He said that "deliberate violations of these standards" needed to be testified and fought courageously. Edward Said became the most articulate international spokesman for the Palestinian cause. He was a formidable academic; the author of 17 books, published in 19 languages, was on the Board of twenty journals and had lectured at more than two hundred universities. He was Professor of Literature at Columbia University, but had also been a distinguished visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, John Hopkins and Toronto universities. In my own research on the work of foreign correspondents, Said helped me understand why so much international news was misreported, slanted or otherwise ignored by journalists who thought they were telling the truth. Indeed, Edward Said's arguments in Orientalism, suggested that Western journalists' "truth" about Asia might merely be representations founded in someone else's fact, fiction and ultimately fantasy: Orientalism helped demolish Western mythologies and in doing so, created Said's international reputation as a scholar. His intellectualism was interwoven with his activism.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.022 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".